Start here if you're a journalist on deadline.

Contact

323-650-0060 – this is a landline that forwards to my cell (voice only, no texts). Feel free to call early or late if on deadline.

jh@jhandel.com – follow up with a phone call if on deadline and you haven't heard back in 10 minutes.

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Attribution

Jonathan Handel (please note spelling of first and last name), entertainment and technology attorney at TroyGould, contributing editor at The Hollywood Reporter and adjunct professor at USC Gould School of Law and Southwestern Law School.

Bio

Media Experience

I've been interviewed or quoted over a thousand times on/in national, international and local television, radio, newspapers, magazines, podcasts and online outlets, in live, taped and tape-for-live formats, via phoners, Skype, Google hangouts, remote crews and in studio, and in lengths ranging from 5 second bites to segments of 15 minutes or more.

Reliability

Journalists who interview me usually come back again, sometimes dozens of times, because my quotes and soundbites are well-informed, concise, colorful, contextual, and often visual, humorous, euphonious or surprising. I'm a lawyer and former computer scientist, but I'm also a journalist (The Hollywood Reporter) and I speak in plain English.

Testimonials

"I've got what I need. I could just lean over and kiss you," NBC News correspondent.

"You're a soundbite machine," CBS News producer.

"You're a machine," Brian Rooney, ABC News correspondent.

"You always rock the live shots," KFWB 980 News anchor Phil Hulett.

"That was brilliant," BBC Radio 5 Live producer.

"He's great," another CBS News producer.

"You were AMAZING! (as usual)," KABC AM 790 producer (1 hr. show).

"Jonathan Handel is one of those rare, exceptional contacts that a radio reporter loves. He knows his stuff, he's articulate, he's interesting, and he understands the deadlines that a reporter works under." KNX 1070 anchor Vicki Cox.